Bin Laden: Dead or alive?

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I dont know, but i do know that if he was dead or captured the government wouldnt tell us. Think of it from a cost-reward standpoint. What does the Military/Intelligence Comunity gain from telling us that they killed/captured Usama... nothing, maybe a little good PR. But if they dont tell us, then they can continue to ask congress for all the money they need, and second if they told the world he was dead/captured the possible retaliation could make Sept. 11 look like a parade

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"...What if what they really want is for us to herd children into stadiums like were doing, shread the Constitution just a little bit, if we do that, then everything that we have fought, and blead for is over, and they've won, hell they've already won..." -The Siege (go see this movie NOW, quote isn't perfect (had to do it from memory))

howdy,
i think he is alive, this guy is no fool. he hasn't finished his devilish deeds yet and he knows that with a price of $25,000,000.00 on his head even his friends cant be trusted.
no he is in a deep deep hole shivering in a corner like the coward he has allway been.

i completly agree. the government doesn't tell us anything. hell, bin laden could be running around in the country and the government knows. i mean, think about it, if he was, and they told us, there would be riots and un-official search parties with guns. crazy people would shoot any arab that they think would be binladen. there would be an extreme racism towards arabs in the US. it's just too risky to tell the public anything anymore.

He was wounded at Tora Bora during operation Anaconda, where the Aust SAS saved the US marines after their helo was downed. As the rescue helo came, the real ambush started. Classic Mujahidin tactics, learnt from the CIA, to fight the Russians.

Has said he will not make another video until he has retalited with another attack on the US.

>>if he was dead or captured the government wouldnt tell us.

What, miss out on all that prestiege, popularity and more importantly VOTES. I don't think so.
(but I know most of you are too young to vote and half of the rest of you US citizens don't bother)